It also added a tax credit worth at least $100 for teachers who bought their own classroom supplies. In 2012, a bill introduced in the State Senate was changed from earlier versions to broaden its appeal, including public schools for the first time. Flanigan, who was among the most prolific fund-raisers for Catholic schools in the country, pushed to resurrect the idea and brought in leaders from the Orthodox Jewish and Lutheran communities, said Mr. Pataki proposed a tax credit for tutoring, after school programs or private tuition, but it died in the Assembly, then as now led by Democrats. The general idea dates as far back as the 1970s, first as a way to address Catholic school closures, and later as the top recommendation by a commission on Catholic schools that former Gov.
Nixon, and the hedge fund billionaire Bruce Kovner, said Bob Bellafiore, a spokesman for the initiative’s supporters. Flanigan, an investment banker and former aide to President Richard M. In New York, the lobbying and public relations efforts have been paid for, in part, by the Coalition for Opportunity in Education, an advocacy organization founded by Peter M. The lawmakers, he said, “have chosen their benefactors, hedge funders and financiers over the 97 percent of New York’s children who attend underfunded public schools.” Iannuzzi, president of the New York State United Teachers, said it was a “fundamental and disgraceful attack” on public school pupils. On Friday, hours after the State Senate approved plans to include the policy in this year’s budget, Richard C. Indeed, though 17 labor unions support the plan, saying it would help children of their members, leaders of those representing teachers see it as a thinly disguised voucher program redirecting state revenue to private schools. He added: “Is not education supposed to bring us together? And, unfortunately, today it seems a sign of division.”
Teacher Shortage: While the pandemic has created an urgent search for teachers in some areas, not every district is suffering from shortages.Title IX: In Hawaii, a looming case alleging sex discrimination against female athletes at the state's biggest public high school could be a landmark stress test for the 50-year-old law.students in most states have experienced troubling setbacks in math and reading since the pandemic began, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. But some educators are finding ways to integrate it into lessons. Teaching Climate Change: Many middle school science standards don’t explicitly mention climate change.On Tuesday, he plans to take his plain black clerical suit - no cassock or robe - on the road to Albany for one last push before the state’s April 1 budget deadline. Supporters say the bill would help public schools struggling to keep class sizes down, parochial schools that have been losing students for years and students who cannot afford private school tuition.Ĭardinal Dolan has spoken and blogged on the topic and batted “cleanup,” as he put it, at crowded rallies around New York to support the proposal.
That is a far more lucrative benefit than the deduction that now exists for such contributions. The proposal, called the education investment tax credit, would create a generous new state tax credit for individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle-class students attend private schools, including religious ones. A proposal to create a state tax credit for donations to public schools and nonprofit scholarship funds is gathering steam in Albany and turning the archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy M.
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